Advanced Medical Imaging

Teleradiology & PACS a Winning Combination

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PACS II Server enhances the radiologist's abilities to access, interpret, report and distribute image data. This DICOM 3.0 compliant Server works to provide optimum efficiency and functionality in a filmless environment. The PACS II Server helps provide image management which keeps patient studies at the radiologist's fingertips -- not in large rooms filled with X-ray film files. This functionality also reduces the cost of film storage.

The PACS II Server manages studies by:

• Advanced Image Routing - A process whereby the Server may be easily programmed to automatically distribute specific patient studies to radiologists, clinicians and primary care physicians based on system administrator configurable rule sets associated with modality type, time of day, day of week, study type/body part or customized patient profiles.
• Auto Delete - A configurable process that automatically purges images from the Server's storage as specified by the system administrator.
• Intelligent Pre-Fetch - A critical component of PACS is a "procedure-triggered" pre-fetch algorithm which efficiently and automatically attaches historical patient studies to multiple corresponding new studies for immediate comparision. The pre-fetch routine is configurable based on patient, modality type and body part to ensure availability of all relevant studies at the diagnostic workstation.

Functionality

• Automatic Historical Exam Prefetch
• Automatic Image Routing
• Automatic Archival
• Automatic Deletion
• Remote Configuration
• DICOM Query/Retrieve SCP
• DICOM Storage SCP
• DICOM MR, CT, CR , US and Secondary Capture Support
• Short Term Storage Database
• Image Transfers
• Archive Support

Key Benefits

• Hierarchical Storage Management
• Query Interpretation
• Processing and Response
• Image Retrieval and Transfer
• System Resource Management
• Image Data Compression and Decompression for Archiving
• External Storage

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The PACS II Archive is a key component of DICOM 3.0 compliant line of PACS product solutions. Designed to support a wide variety of hardware configurations and storage media, the PACS II Archive can be configured for individual modalities as well as enterprise-wide DICOM networks. The PACS II Archive is an integral part of any system strategy that proceeds along the path toward a fully filmless hospital environment. The PACS II Archive consists of two components -- an archive controller and an optical jukebox.

Archive Controller
The Archive Controller is integrated with PACS II Server to provide physical control of the archive hardware as well as management of the on-line and off-line archive media.

Magneto-optical disks that are resident inside the jukebox are referred to as "on-line media." They are automatically loaded and unloaded to and from "read-write" disk drives by the archive controller software based upon user query request or pre-fetch request from PACS II Server for historical patient studies.

Disks that are removed from the jukebox and stored externally are called "off-line media." The archive controller software automatically detects when an off-line image study is requested and sends a message to the controller console to intelligently direct the manual loading of specific off-line disks for access.

Archive Jukebox
PACS II Server and Archive Jukebox work together to provide a seamless interface to a wide range of industry standard jukeboxes and archive media. The use of a particular archive and media is highly dependent upon retrieval requirements, storage requirements, and facility volume. The most popular and effective archive jukeboxes at this time are magneto-optical (read-write) based. The effective storage capacity of a fully populated jukebox is increased by use of JPEG lossless compression.

Key Benefits

• JPEG lossless compression
• On-Line media management
• Off-Line media management
• Journaling and Automatic Archive Back-ups (which provide two independent recovery mechanisms in the event of failures.

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